Child&#39;s sleeping-garment.



G. F. EARNSHAW.

CHILDS SLEEPING GARNIENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9.19I5.

L2Lm-, Patented Apr. 3,1917.

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GEORGE F. ENSW, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOJR. TO EARNSHAW KNITTINGCO., OIF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

CHILDS SLEEPING-GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr.. 3, 191'?.

Application led .T une 9, 1915. Serial No. 33,034.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. EARNSHAW, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Childrens Sleeping-Garments, of which the following is a speciy portion by seams extendingbetween the shoulders and the arm pits, as usual in most sleevedgarments. This latter construction, as embodied in a childs sleepinggarment of the character mentioned has one serious objection, in that adrawing or pulling down action on the body of the garment, whichfrequently occurs owing to the restlessness of the child, especiallywhere the garment is shorter than it should be, creates more or less ofa downward pull on the shoulders of the child transmitted through thesubstantially non-elastic shoulder seams, thus tending to make the childround shouldered.

The object of my present invention is to produce a garment which shallentirely obviate the above mentioned objection, and this object I secureby uniting the sleeves to the body p'ortion by oblique seams whichextend between the neck and arm pits of the garment, leaving theshoulder portions integral with the arm portions. This constructiontransmits the strains caused by a downward pull on the body not to theshoulders but to the base of the neck, this portion of the childs bodybeing much better able to withstand such strains without injury ordeformity, due to the resistance of the backbone and the relativelystrong neck and back muscles.

Tn the accompanying drawings I havement with the sleeves extendedsubstantially at right angles to the median line of the body; and

F ig. :2 is a similar rear elevation of the garment.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates the front portion, and 6 therear portion of a childs garment, which may be assumed to be made ofknit material; these portions being united by longitudinal side seams 7.At the lower portion of the body portion is a hem or casing 8 in whichis lnserted the usual drawstring 9 for closing the lower end of thegarment when the latter is on the child. 10 designates the sleeves, theout-er ends of which are formed with similar hems or casings 11containing drawstrings 12 for closing the outer ends of the sleeves.

13 is the neck portion finished in the usual manner, and 14 (Fig. 2)designates the rear opening closed bv tie strings 15, as usual ingarments of this type.

The sleeves 10, instead of being attached to the body portion by theusual seams running through the arm pits and over the shoulders, areattached by oblique front and rearseams 16 and 17 that start from theneck 13 and are continuous through the arm pits.

It is well known that in all garments, even knitted garments, the seamsare substantially inelastic, having very little stretch. ltv will thusbe seen that in the garment herein shown and described, especially whenthe same is made of knit material, practically none of the downward pullon the body is transmitted to the shoulder portions, but substantiallyall of this downward pull is transmitted through the oblique seams 1.6,17 to the neck portions where, as above stated, it can work practicallyno inconvenience or harm to the child.

.l claim:

An article of the character described comprising an infants sleepinggarment of full length, the same possessing a body portion havingsleeves, a. neck opening, and an open lower end provided with means forclosing the same below the feet of the infant, said body part beingformed in part of continuous elastic material extending over and aroundthe shoulder portions to render the latter seamless and relativelyunrestrained throughout so as to give and prevent downward pullsincident to pressure of the feet of the infant against the closed end ofthe 5 garment from being transmitted to the shoulders of the infant, incombination with means for tying the garment about the neck of theinfant, and relatively inelastic oblique seams extending from the neckto approximately the arm pits for transmitting the pulling strains tothe neck portion of the garment as the elastic limit of the shoulderportions thereof is reached.

GEORGE F. EARNSHAW.

